Cover: Authors great grandfather Rev. Charlie White and the First South Carolina Volunteers at Hilton Head, South Carolina

Figures

The Gospel Army Black History Group

Nhoma Village Bushmen and the Author

Top: “Horrible Massacre” (Washington Republican, Salem, Indiana, Friday, May 21, 1847, and Carroll County Democrat (Maryland), April 29, 1847 and Slave Ship Shackles

Bottom: Slave Shackles and Collar

1908 German map of Africa

Dark Artillery, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, October 5, 1861

The Storming of Fort Wagner,-Lithograph by Louis Kurz and Alexander Allison, 1890

Top: The Bloodhound Business, Library of Congress

Bottom: Slave hiding in a tree, trapped by armed whites on horseback; dogs surrounding tree, Library of Congress

Top: The Front of a Slave Auction House in New Orleans Before the Auction, Harper’s Weekly, Jan. 24, 1863, p. 61. These slaves were probably house servants. Field slaves were sold in the trading yard across the river.

Bottom: Marker on New Orleans building indicates that it was once a Slave Exchange Contraband Camp at City Point, depicting an evening prayer meeting

Bibb describes this scene of family praying, being whipped then auctioned

“Contraband Camp at City Point” depicting an evening prayer meeting

Eastman Johnson, The Lord is My Shepherd, 1863 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

New York Herald, Saturday, January 28, 1804 and Civil War CDV of Gordon (slave) at the Baton Rouge Union camp during his medical examination, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, March 1863

Amy Was Hung in March 1865 For Saying, “Bless The Lord The Yankees Have Come” Harper’s Weekly September 30, 1865

Top: The Last Moments of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden, 1884 (Library of Congress) and New York Daily Tribune, December 5, 1859

Bottom: The Tragic Prelude, John Brown, by John Steuart Curry (Courtesy Kansas State Historical Society)

 

John Brown’s John Brown’s Original Marching Song, Duke University Libraries, Digital Collection’s

Louisiana Native Guard, Authors Collection

Free, Statue by Emma Cadwallader-Guild,1880s, Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum

Top: First South Carolina Colored Volunteers, from a sketch by Colonel Brewerton (Author’s Collection)

Bottom: Captioned “The War in South Carolina—a Negro regiment attacked by rebels and bloodhounds—from a sketch by our special artist, W. T. Crane,” (Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, March 5, 1864)

Men of Color! To Arms! To Arms! (Philadelphia 1863), Library of Congress

“A Negro Regiment in Action,” Harper’s Weekly, March 14, 1863

Top: Battle of Port Hudson (Library of Congress) Bottom: Funeral of Capt. Andre Cailloux in New Orleans, July 29, 1863, from the August 29, 1863 edition of Harpers Weekly

Battle of Milliken’s Bend Battle of Milliken’s Bend ( Frank Leslie’s ‘The Negro in The War’)

“Colored troops under General Wild, Liberating slaves in North Carolina.”

The Fort Pillow Massacre, Louis Kurz and Alexander Allison, Chicago, Illinois

The war in Virginia – the 22nd Colored Regiment, Duncan’s brigade, carrying the first line of Rebel works before Petersburg

Top: Abatis at Petersburg in 1865. (Library of Congress)

Bottom: “The Colored Infantry Bringing in the Captured Guns, amid the Cheers of the Ohio Troops,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, July 9, 1864

Battle of the Crater (Author’s Collection)

Top: Polley’s description of Confederate positions guarding Richmond Virginia at New Market Heights, September 29, 1864, Burk & McFetridge, environs of Richmond

Bottom: Redoubt and Signal Station on Cobb’s Hill, Va.

Company E, Fourth US Colored Infantry, Ft. Lincoln, defenses of Washington (Library of Congress)

Butler Medal, engraving in Butler’s Book and Medal from Authors Collection, Fleetwood’s Medal of Honor, Smithsonian Institution

Battle of Nashville by Louis Kurz and Alexander Allison, 1893

The First Mississippi Cavalry Bringing into Vicksburg Rebel Prisoners Captured at Haines Bluff,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, December 19, 1863

The Federal Army Entering Richmond VA. April 03rd 1865, Frank LESLIES 1895 BOOK HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR 2pics

Black Troops Entering Charleston, Harper’s Weekly, March 18, 1865

Jane Richards Bunn’s Bible

1860 Slave Schedule: Elkins Township Arkansas

1870 Clark County Arkansas Census

Clara White and charley My Great Grand Father Rev. Charley White, 1867-1934, holding his Bible.

The Jubilee Singers (The American Experience, PBS Online)

Wikipedia, Battle of Chaffin’s Farm